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Bohemian Prater
The Bohemian Prater (german: Böhmischer Prater) is a small amusement park at the edge of Vienna, in Favoriten, Vienna's 10th district. It dates to the second half of the 19th century, and some of the rides are more than 100 years old. The name is derived from the larger Prater, Wiener (Viennese) Prater in Vienna's Leopoldstadt (2nd) district. On 11 December 1944, during World War II, the Bohemian Prater was almost completely destroyed by a bomb attack. The centre of the Bohemian Prater forms the meeting centre ''Tivoli''. History In the 19th century, workers mostly spent their meager free time in inns. Excursions and walks were the only entertainment. Since the second half of the 19th century, the Laa Forest has been one of the most popular destinations for excursions and can be reached on foot in around 15 minutes from Favoriten. Franz Bauer, a canteen manager at the Laaer Wald brickworks, ran a small inn here, which soon became a popular destination for Sunday excursions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vienna ( ; german: Wien ; bar, Wean, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the Capital city, capital, largest city, and one of States of Austria, nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's List of cities and towns in Austria, most populous city and its primate city, with about two million inhabitants (2.9 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of the country's population), and its Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, 6th-largest city proper by population in the European Union and the largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was the largest German language, German-speaking city in the world, and before the splitting of the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, the city had two million inhabitants. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
